The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09
Notes and Opinions.

WHILE the membership of the
Knights of Labor is decreasing in the
United States it is increasing in Canada.
IT is the peculiar paradox of this
campaign that the greatest danger to
prohibition is the prohibitionists.
dtor HOdr.
THE Hartford Post remarks that Jeff.
Davis weeping in public at Macon sug-
gests that few live to be chief mourners
at their own funerals.
THERE appears to be more political
agitation and trouble to the square inch
in Great Britain than there is to the
square foot in this country.
THE Boston Herald says: "The
independents are not party. They
are a product of the times" That is
to say, they are mushrooms.
READ the "great offers" at the
head of the first column on the first
page of this paper. More liberal terms
are offered to subscribers than before.
The Caledonion evidently glories in
its mugwumpery. But it must be re-
membered that very many of the mug
wumps mistake conceit for independ-
ence.
COUNT DE LEssEPs has announced to
the Academy of Science that the Pan
anna canal will be open on February Sd,
1890. But the count has fixed the date
several times before.
THE reported sale of the New York
Graphic to a republican syndicate
proved incorrect, and the paper has
finally been sold to a democratic syndi-
cate and of course will remain dem
ocratic.
THE November Forum contains a
sharp attack on the Knights of Labor
by President Barnard of Columbia, in
which he charges them with " blockad-
ing industry" and with trying to coerce
society.
THE campaign fund of the New York
democrats will probably reach 1927 900,
the greater part of which is being kept
for distribution on election day. Presi-
dent Cleveland was one of the con-
tributors.
INSTEAD of denouncing the recent
demonstrations of ex-rebels in the
South as waving of the " bloody
Shirt" the worst that the mugwump
papers have to say of them is that they
are " ill-timed."
THERE is a slight mistake in the
Century Magazine for November, where
the picture of the late Israel Wash
burne, Jr., of Maine is made to appear
as the portrait of his brother, the late
Elihu b. Washburne of Illinois.
IT was an old Scotch woman, accord
ing to Punch, who, when she saw her
pastor coming along the road on a
bicycle, said: Il dinna like to see the
meenester goin' about the country on a
| cyclopedia." President Cleveland used
the latter to great advantage in his
travels over the country.
JEFF. DAVIS has reached home in as
good health as when he started out on
his tour. The northern democrats
would be glad to have him stay at
home, but if he lives until the next
campaign he will probably put on his
war paint and go forth again to revive
the memories of the " lost cause"
No other paper publishes so full report
of the meeting last week of the Vermont
Bar Association, the attendant banquet and
the speeches made as the AryuS ana
Patriot.-ArguS and Patriot.
That may be true, but your report was
incomplete. 1t had no report or men.
ton of the speech made by r.. G. Brown.
How is that?
MURAT HALsTEAD says full demo
cratic control of the national govern,
ment will mean the wiping out of all
war legislation, pensioning confeder'